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"The linguistics was very good," says David Adger, a linguist at Queen Mary University of London who specializes in syntax, the rules that govern sentence structure.

One sentencing expert, Daniel J. Freed, a professor at Yale Law School, said in a telephone interview that the tarnishing of history could be a basis for a greater sentence if the judge finds the crime is so unusual that it does not fit the rigid rules that govern sentencing.

The syntactic rules governing sentence formation and the semantic rules governing the assignment of meanings to sentences and phrases are immensely complicated, yet language users apparently apply them hundreds or thousands of times a day, quite effortlessly and unconsciously.

The centerpiece of Mr. Daniels's approach is a set of reforms governing sentencing and parole.

Under the laws governing sentencing in 1958, Mr. Schiffer could be free in as little as three years.

Under the scoring system that governs sentences, her findings called for a sentence in the range of 97 months to 121 months.

In this contribution to a symposium on "Fraud and Federalism," I describe problems in present law and offer relatively uncontroversial reform measures that could substantially improve the law governing sentencing of financial reporting fraud.

The sentencing of the worker, Steve S. Kim, 58, had been put off for several weeks in Federal District Court in Manhattan as the parties in the case discussed the strict legal guidelines that govern federal sentencing.

Part III establishes that jurors do not understand the burdens of proof governing the sentencing phase of murder trials.

The ruling has ignited calls for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which governs the sentences for hacking crimes.

The fate of Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to revamp decades of law governing prison sentences and juvenile justice now lies in the hands of the California Supreme Court.